| Attribute |
AMD Phenom II X4 955 × | 
Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 × |
| General Information | | |
| Brand | AMD | Intel |
| Series | AMD Phenom II | Intel Xeon E3 |
| Model | AMD Phenom II X4 955 | Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 |
| CPU Cores and Base Frequency | | |
| CPU Cores | 4 | 4 |
| Frequency (GHz) | 3.2 | 3.4 |
| CPU Threads | 4 | 8 |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Hyperthreading | - | + |
| Overclocking | + | - |
| Turbo (1 Core) (GHz) | - | 3.8 |
| Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz) | - | 3.6 |
| Encryption | | |
| AES-NI | - | + |
| Hardware codec support | | |
| JPEG | No | No |
| h264 | No | No |
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit) | No | No |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit) | No | No |
| VP8 | No | No |
| AV1 | No | No |
| VC-1 | No | No |
| VP9 | No | No |
| AVC | No | No |
| Memory And PCIe | | |
| 1↑Memory type | DDR2-1066 | DDR4-2133 |
| PCIe lanes | - | 16 |
| PCIe version | - | 3.0 |
| ECC | - | + |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| Technical details | | |
| Release date (year) | 2009 | 2015 |
| Technology (Nm) | - | 14 |
| Socket | AM3 | LGA 1151 |
| Virtualization | | |
| L3-Cache (MB) | 6 | 8 |
| Architecture | Deneb | Skylake |
| Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| Thermal Management | | |
| TDP (PL1) (W) | 125 | 80 |
| Benchmarks | | |
| Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark | 3,987 | 10,735 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 422 | 931 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 1,401 | 3,761 |
| Cinebench R15 (Single-Core) | 84 | 163 |
| Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core) | 324 | 799 |
| Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core) | 651 | - |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 0.97 | 1.98 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 3.82 | 8.93 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core) | 1,709 | 4,309 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 5,984 | 15,325 |
| Cinebench R23 (Single-Core) | 488 | 975 |
| Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core) | 1,967 | 4,832 |